Revolving waste pipe opening machine



May 26, 1931. A. REBER 1,307,549

' REVOLVING WASTE PIPE OPENING momma Filed Nov. 29, 1929 AMEL R5557?INVENTOR mmzss ATTORNEY Patented May 26, 1931 UNITEDOSTATES PATENT oFFICE AMEL REBER, OF SAN BERNARDINO, GAL IFORNIA REVOLVING WASTE PIPEOPENING MACHINE Application filed November 29, 1929. Serial No. 410,632.

' room in which the drain islocated and then forcing the cable throughthe drain pipe filled with water to carry away the dbris orotherobstructions, and after dislodging the obstruction, the cable hadto be withdrawn and again strewn over the floor surface until it couldbe rewound or otherwise gathered up, with the consequence that the.floor surface would become littered with dirt and Water from the cable.

More particularly the invention has as its object to provide a machinewhich may be conveniently set up upon the floor surface at a pointsubstantially over the drain to be opened and which machine embodies adrum rotatably mounted in a cylindrical housing or casing, from whichdrum the cable may be paid out in any length required, to be fitted intothe drain until the obstruction is reached and dislodged, a reverserotation of the drum serving to rewind the cable while the cable ismaintained taut during the rewinding'operation, thus overcoming thedisadvantages of the old method.

Another object of the invention is to provide a machine for the purposestated in which the drum and its casing may be adjusted to any desiredelevation.

Another object of the invention is to provide a machine of this class soconstructed and in which the drum, and its casing, are so supported thatif it is found that the crank handle by which the drum is rotated cannotbe conveniently employed, the drum casing and the support therefor maybe readilyreversed" and rotated by another crank handle provided forthat purpose.

This invention also consists in certain other features of constructionand in the combinahinged bearing members 13 which tion and arrangementof the several parts, to

'be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings and specifically pointed out in the appended claim.

In describing my invention in detail, reference will be had to theaccompanying draw ings wherein like characters denote like orcorrcspondnu g parts throughout the several views, and in which Figure lis' aview in elevation of the machine embodying the invention.

Figure 2 is a top plan view thereof.

Figure 3 is a horizontal sectional view through the drum and casing.

The support for the drum and the operat- 1:.

ing means therefor comprises an upright'or standard indicated in generalby the numeral 1, which is mounted at one end in the center coupling 2of a tripod base 3, the standard including a lower tubular section 4 andan upper section 5 which is telescopically fitted 'into the lowersection 4 so that the section 5 may be vertically adjusted, the sectionbeing held in its positions of adjustment through the medium of a setscrew (5 preferably provided with an angularly extending handle 7. p

Mounted upon the upper end of the upper section 5 of the standard is aT-union 8 and at one end of the union there is mounted, by.

means to be presently described a U-shaped frame comprising a crossmember 9 and side members 10, and the side members are each recessed atone edge, as indicated by the numeral 11, and which edge is normally theCL;

upper edge of each side member, and the crank shaft 12 is rotatablymounted at its ends in the recesses and retained therein by may beremovably held in closed position by any means found desirablc,yas forexample by screws 14. A winding drum, indicated in general by thenumeral 15 is fixed upon the shaft for rotation therewith, and a crankhandle 16 is likewise fixed upon one end of the shaft and constitutesmeans whereby the shaft and drum may be rotated. The drum ,comprisesa-cylindrical body- 17 and heads 18 which project at their peripheralportions beyond the body and are provided upon their inner sides withinwardly projecting annular flanges which engage in the opposite sidesof a cylindrical casing 21, the flanges being rotatable within thecasing and the casing being heldvagains't rotation, normally, by meansof a pair of hinge members 22 and 23 which are mounted respectively uponthe cross piece 9 and the outer side of the casing, a pintle pin24'being fitted through the lugs of the hinge members 22 and 23 and thedrum being in this manner held stationary with respect to the framecomprising the members 9 and 10. The drum is provided at its sideopposite the side at which the member 9 is located With-an opening 25through which the cable indicated by the numeral 26 may be led.

A shaft 27 is rotatably mounted in the upper member of the T-coupling 8and a crank handle 28 is fixed upon the outer end of this shaft, theother end of the shaft being connected or united to the cross piece 9 ofthe frame.

It will now be understood that the cable 26 may be paid out from thedrum 15 by merely pulling the cable through the opening 25 in the casing21 and the cable passed down through the drain to be cleaned or openeduntil the end of the cable engages the obstruction in the drainwhereupon the cable is repeatedly elevated and moved downwardly untilthe obstruction is dislodged and it will be evident at this point thatdue to the flexible nature of the cable it will be adapted to passthrough various formations of the couplings and elbows in the drain.

After the obstruction has been cleared from the drain, the drum may bereversely in the side members of the frame, a drum fixed upon the shaft,a casing surrounding the drum, the drum having heads provided withflanges of annular form rotatably fitting in the opposite sides of thecasing, the casing having an opening for the passage therethrough of acable to be wound upon the drum, and coacting means upon the casing andthe said frame for holding the casing against rotation with the drum.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

AMEL REBER.

rotated through the medium of the crank handle 16 and the cable in thismanner withdrawn from the drain and rewound upon the drum. In the eventit is found that the crank handle cannot be conveniently operated fromthe side of the machine at which it is located, it is only necessarythat the crank handle 28 be rotated through one half a turn in order toinvert the frame comprising the members 9 and 10, and the drum 15 andits casing 21 so that the crank handle 16 will be located at the otherside of the standard.

What I claim is z- A machine of the class described, compris-

